•Hi Group, Isn't MMD a fabulous resource -- Thank you Jody and Robbie! Just look at the response that Andrew Barrett got on his request for organ and tune information. Look at the help Tony Greer got on information on Ray Siou and the titles for his terrific CD set of Ray Siou's church-pipe organ. I...

•Lynn, Most Regina disc boxes have a serial number stamped on a small raised area on the bedplate or, in some of the earlier boxes, into the circular platform on the center spindle. Since your chime clock would not be one of the earlier Reginas, look near the center spindle. Once you have the serial...

•Comb repairs and tuning, while a relatively simple job, needs a little careful thought prior to attempting. The actual fitting of a new tooth has been mastered now by one or two people, to the point that they are almost impossible to detect. Tuning is easy, either working to a known scale or matchi...

•Currently in my shop for restoration is one of the two or three Mason & Hamlin pianos built with an Ampico. Like other concert grand Ampico pianos, this piano had a special, highly modified Ampico unit installed. In my knowledge, all of these pianos except one have been stripped of the Ampico. Ther...

•Dear Dr. Passen: There are several steps needed to determine why any pipe is not speaking. I have not personally worked on the brand of calliope you have but as a pipe organ technician there are commonalties involved between a calliope whistle and an organ pipe. The following then are steps toward ...

•Hi MMD and Sankyo manivelle friends, here are some detailed informations about the new chromatic Sankyo. I got them from Gérard Dabonot of the famous French trading company "Le Turlutain". Le Turlutain Musique Mécanique, Editions Musicales 104 Rue d'Alsace 54110 Sommerviller http://leturlutain.free...

•Bill, I have come across the phenomena of dead teeth before, and discussed this with the late Bob Minney on many occasion while we have been discussing comb tuning. What you can find when tuning teeth is, you can get them just where you consider them crack on, only to have one killed off by another...

•Tuning Standards for Coin Pianos and Orchestrions with Pipes, and Band Organs. Most American coin pianos and orchestrions should be tuned to A=435, except for most Nelson-Wiggen pianos, which were tuned to A=440 if the xylophone or marimba has that stamped on one of the bars. Many American band org...

•[ Ref. 160428 MMDigest, Rotary Pump Makes the Grand Piano Shimmy My 1923 5'4" Chickering grand shook from day one after I rebuilt it. It stopped briefly over the winter, but then started shaking again. I believe the problem is an inherently unbalanced pump (spider crank) coupled with legs that are ...

•Hello Friends, I have been helping a family who bought this instrument at auction, not knowing what they were in for and having never heard it play. It appears to be an old DeKleist band organ that was modified to try to play Wurlitzer 150 rolls. Both the vacuum pump and pressure pumps were full of...

Mike Knudsen writes regarding his 20-note Deleika organ: > Question 1: Are my bellows leaking,.... > Question 2: ...The [single bourdon] are voiced too loud for the solo > pipes, and a bit too "tubby" also..... So I'd like to throttle them > back somehow. ... my ideal solution would be to replace th...

Finally a topic for me :) Mike Knudsen wrote: > Two years ago at the Union IL swap meet I purchased a used 20-note > Deleika monkey/grinder organ, the style that should go on a small cart. > It's in fine-looking shape and beautifully built inside, looking almost > new inside and out. I have a few ro...

•Hello, MMD friends, Jeff Bridges wrote, in 030919 MMDigest: > Whalom Park, in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, has closed for good. ... > Let's not let a piece of history, nor the carousel, go to waste! The carousel was forced to auction by Commerce Bank in April 2000. At the time of the auction, this Loo...

•It was my understanding that the organ arrived in 1894 at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk without any facade. I spent most of the day Sept. 10th, 2001, looking at the organ -- the sort of day that sticks out for a number of reasons. The organ was originally operated by a barrel. The bearing blocks a...

•Davis, Wallace, Dale; I saw the latest discussions on the list about seeking to use a software synthesizer upon MIDI files, and to take into account the barrel organ richness (registrations, drums). On our side (fair organs), we worked a bit reversed from the MIDI to organ way. Our needs are to mak...

•By the Pierce Piano Atlas it looks like your grand was made about 1917, if it was built in the Horace Waters factory, and not by Janssen, who also made pianos for Horace Waters. I also have a grand piano made by Horace Waters and the number goes back to 65024. I have had the case refinished and I r...

•For those interested in new 50- and 72-note Sankyo movements, you'll surely love what we offer (http://www.bettermusicboxes.com/). We apply our 40+ years experience to every movement we sell, making any fine adjustments necessary to assure the movement is playing to its finest potential. Not only d...

•Hi Phil, Regarding your problem with sound levels in the room where your bottle organ lives, I'm pretty sure that you have what's called a standing wave problem. The physical dimensions or properties of your room are such that a resonance is created at the specific frequency of that bottle. If you ...

•I saw a piano with this problem once that had been repaired in the past. The fixer used the old trick of putting on a larger pulley on the bellows side, thus making in turn faster and suck harder, overcoming the leaks in the system. The player was an Ampico and he probably did not want to remove th...

•Regarding the injured sensibilities that Wayne Stahnke's 'tinkering' with the Ampico rolls for the CD has produced, perhaps it should be noted that a rigorous mathematical model of something can be 100% accurate. Forget the 'improved' _mechanical_ devices from the 1960s onwards, because these produ...